Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.